Since I installed Linux Mint 17 with XFCE I've been experiencing what I believe is a bug. Sometimes it will hang, at rabdom moments, regardless what I'm doing. The time between hangs can be hours and ...

I am using Linux Mint 17, with the Cinnamon desktop environment. I was hoping there was some way to format the Date and Time to display the Month (abbreviated) and the Day of the week (abbreviated) in ...

I have two monitors connected to this system... one via displayport and one via DVI. When I go into the screen saver settings, I enabled Power Management and set standby, suspend, and off to 1 minute. ...

Does anybody know how to download videos in Linux? I don't mean using programs, although if there are any I'd love to know about them. There is a you-tube downloader available in my package manager ...

I own an Asus N551J laptop using Nvidia Optimus feature, running Linux Mint 17.1. BOINC can't recognise the GPU using Bumblebee driver even if I run it using optirun boinc. I installed bumblebee with ...

First off: if any of this is confusing or missing info PLEASE comment and I'll happily clarify and/or add more info.
I've got a brand new MSI laptop with Linux Mint (17.1) installed on it. It has an ...

I messed up with some .h files some days ago and since then I have strange issues with my Linux Mint 17.
I cannot open my Trash, I get an error saying something like "sorry could not display all the ...

I found an interesting font on GitHub. And it even had an instullation guide.
So I use fc-cache -fv and it displays processing on directory with my files:
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/home/my_profile_name/.fonts: caching, ...

related to How to enable mouse focus in Linux Mint 15 with Cinnamon
The above question details how to make it so that window focus is driven by mouse position - i recently switched to a two-monitor ...

I’m having problems getting my dual monitor setup working in my Linux Mint 17.1 setup.
There is a display app under the system menu and when I run it, it says I have two monitors (it even knows the ...

All the shares fstab tries to mount show up in the navigation panel in Nemo for me. If for whatever reason a share didn’t get mounted at startup, clicking on it tries to mount it for me. Except that ...

I’m using a black MacBook from around 2008. The Mac OS X installed on the system no longer starts; I get a grey screen without being able to get to the actual desktop.
I was able to create a live USB ...

I just got a new SSD and I wanted to install Linux Mint 17.1 to a raid 0 array of SSDs. I also want the array to be encrypted. I tried the following guide and got mdadm to setup a software array and ...

I've just noticed so it might have been like that ever since I upgraded to Linux Mint Rebecca, but I have no page borders in Evince: the white background of the page blends seamlessly into the white ...

If I launch rakarrack (without jack qjackctl), I do get sound output to my speakers from the guitar input.
However, if I try to launch mplayer, to be able to play along a song, it gives "Audio device ...

I've been trying to boot my Windows 8.1 on a VirtualBox machine under my Linux Mint 17. Everything is in x64. I've installed VirtualBox and its GUI to do so. My Windows 8.1 is on /dev/sda2, my Mint 17 ...

I've tried using lpr and the GUI menus in Writer and Document Viewer in Linux Mint and Ubuntu. The printer is EPSON XP-200, connected by network. lpstat -a lists it as accepting requests. Each time, ...